A booke of secrets
Subtitle: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours. Also to write with gold and siluer, or any kind of mettall out of the pen: with many other profitable secrets, as to colour quils and parchment of any colour: and to graue with strong water in steele and iron. ... Translated out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine, that it may continue good and faint not ... Written first in Italian, and now newly translated into English, by W.P.
Contributors: Phillip, William. attributed name.; W. P., fl. 1618.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 282:4.
Publisher: Printed by Adam Islip for Edward White, and are to be sold at his shop at the little north dore of Pouls, at the signe of the Gun
Published: 1596
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Colors -- Early works to 1800.; Engraving -- Early works to 1800.; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Ettliche Künste, auff mancherley Weisz Dinten und allerhand Farben zu bereyten. English.
Notes: W.P. = William Phillip.

Part 1 is a translation of: Ettliche Küntse, auff mancherley Weisz Dinten und allerhand Farben zu bereyten.

Italian original of part 2 not traced.

Signatures: A-E⁴.

The first leaf has an arabesque pattern on the recto, but no text.

Reproduction of the original in the the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

STC (2nd ed.) 3355.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1946. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 282:04).